Smyrna times., 1887-05-04


Oners at Dover on Saturday mOrning
One gOtfve and the other twenty Iasbes
The second annual excursion of m,
MiddletOwn M. Z. Sunday. scbooI f.
Colchester Beach will take nIace ~
Thursday, July 9TH.
The Judges get $5a day while the,
are IN court session, besides their regn.
lar salaries. This increase was made st
the late session of the Legislature.
The citizens of Georgetown held
etingOn Saturday evening to provide
re apparatus for the town. Most ~
de money needed has been subscribed
GArles P. HynsOn, brother ofHenrx
l.. dynson, editor of the Milford Ne,6,
and Advertiser, who died in California
was brought to Milford and buried Fri.
day.
The Good Templar, published at New.
ark, atter one years experience has en-.
Larsed It's size to eight pages. 1t is a
fine paper, full of good reading, for Sd
cents year.
By appointing Elwood r. Nornev
fish commissioner for the State there IS
a fitness which all good men wish that
the Governor had observed in his other
appointments.
The new national bank at Seaford
will be located nearly opposite the Of
flee OF W. M. Ross Il Co., phosphate
manufacturers, on High street, and is
to be single story brick building. 22x
46 feet in size.
Owen Crowley of Blackbird hundred
has brought suit against the election
officers OF that hundred for taking the
vote of Oliver Wood, farmer, last fall
which he alleges was illegal. The case
will be tried this month.
Thomas D. Burton and Jonathan N
Slpple of Frederica, who committed an
assault upon Paris T. Carlisle of the
same town more than a year ago. plead
ed guilty last Monday at Dover and
were each fined $3.50 and costs.
DIR. Katharine Williamson. daughter
Of ]. F. Williamson, of Newark. Del
has, by very creditable competitive
examination, been admitted to active
practice in the New England Hospital
for women and children in Boston.
We speak what we know when wesav
that there are hundreds of Democrats in
Delaware that will not support Mr..
Cleveland should he be again nOmina-
tea, and such being the case here we
are sure that it is the same in other
States.-Deiawarean.
James Scowdrick, formerly ofNIiddle-
town, but who of late resided in
Philadelphia, was buried at Middletown
in the Forest Cemetery on Sunday. Mr..
ScrOwdrlck grew up near KentOn. and
received his education there, going to
elerKlHg when good sized lad He
was over so years of age.
The board of officers of the Delaware
National Guard will meet at Dover to
morrow to elect a major, surgeon. as
slstant surgeon, and cOmmissary fsub-
slstence. This last Office will not be a
snecure now that the ID. N. G. goes in
10 summer quarters under the auspices
oil Oialeglslative appropriation.
The commissioners of the newly in
eOrpOrated town of KentOn met on last
Friday and elected ]. B. Messick presi-
dent }. NJ. Arthurs, secretary and trea-
surer; e. W. Hawkins, alderman, and
Alexander Frazier, police officer. The
other members of the board of commits
sloners are Stephen Walkerand Thomas
E. Bailey.
The EUery Evening says the farmers
DO not pay any part of the State taxes,
that it all comes from the railroad COM
panies. Yes, it all comes from the rail
road companies, but the companies
have taken very good care to receive
the money from the fruit and grain
crops of the farmers prior to paying it
over to the State.
The recent assessment of real estate
IN Wilmington fOOts up more than thir-
ty millions of dollars. The EUerv
EUenlng showed cOmmendable enter
prise in publishing a complete list Ofall
those whose assessment amounted to fif-
teen thousand and upward. The Pen
nsylvania Railroad is the heaviest tax
payer, being assessed at something over
half a million of dollars. The Harlan
q HollingswOrth car works and ship
yards comes next.
The HOTEL HENLOPEN. "A meeting
Of the Hotel Henlopen Company was
held at the Clayton House, Wilmington,
Monday, and an organization was efTec-
ted by the election of the following Of
fcers; James Z. Hooper, President
George R. Johnson, U. S. N, vice-presi-
4 dent w. Irving Walker, secretary. and
George w. Mccullough, treasurer.
fhe company was incorporated at the
last session Of the Legislature. It has
leased the hotel to DR.. J. T. Thompson
4 Philadelphia, who will run it this
summer,
IT LOOKS MEAN.-WyOming Della
ware, is the heaviest peach depot in the
world. The growers have been now
two years in establishing the plan OF
selling the basket with the fruit. But
they don't want anybody else to do it.
they know it is the best plan yet, and
they want to keep it to themselves
When they hear of others endorsing
their methods, they pass resolutions OI
condemnation. IL is almost a wonder
they have not applied for a patent right
or a copyright. or some sort of Legisla
uQn for protection Farm and Garden
When the time arrives for you, anC
OOueF VOberS 10 vote iOf convention
let there be no skulking. Come Ou
and be a man. If there is not few
changes needed in that old aptiquateC
and antediluvian document, known Al
the State Constitution, vote against it
II you believe that the Governor ha
too much power, while the peopl'
onget to have it, vote solid for il. Th'
chance is coming that has been asked
Ior many years, but it has never beei
until this year II is the duty OfeVer!
voter to vote his sentiments on th
question. DeIGlOare ledger.
GETTING EVEN WITH SENATOR FER
GUsoN.-The Trustees Of the Poor O
New Castle county have turned dow
Richard Ferguson and made Count
Treasurer Haman treasurer Of thei
board, The change OfOiIlcers Is inter
preted as an act Of pure good will I
the levy court, to get square with Stat
senator Ferguson. IL will be remem
oered that during the recent session
the Great Assembly, n bill was intro
duced by DR.. Chandelier uniting tn
Offices Of county treasurer and treas
nrer Of the poor This bill, supporte
by the levy court on the score ofecon'